Energy Supply Solutions
- Interface facilities use on-site power generation from photovoltaic arrays at the InterfaceFLOR Commercial manufacturing facility in Georgia and the Bentley Prince Street manufacturing facility located in City of Industry, California.
- Interface and several other companies are partnering with World Resources Institute (WRI) to build markets for renewable energy. Convened in 2000, WRI’s Green Power Market Development Group seeks to develop corporate markets for 1,000 MWh of new, cost-competitive green power by 2010.
- Seven Interface facilities now operate with 100 percent renewable electricity, and the overall percentage of renewable electricity used worldwide is 22 percent. As of year-end 2006, 16 percent of Interface's global energy usage was renewable energy primarily sourced through the purchase of Green-e certified RECs, with a small amount of renewable energy from the grid and on-site generation.
- InterfaceFLOR Commercial is a charter partner in the EPA’s Green Power Partnership , a voluntary program aimed at boosting the market for power alternatives that reduce the environmental and health risks of conventional electricity generation.
- InterfaceFLOR Commercial has contracted with the City of LaGrange, Georgia to use landfill gas to replace up to 20 percent of its natural gas usage at the LaGrange, Georgia manufacturing facility.
Energy Demand Solutions
- Interface’s improved efficiencies and conservation efforts have reduced the total energy required to manufacture carpet per unit of production by 45 percent since 1996.
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